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TIL It is a requirement for British tanks to have a kettle onboard for brewing tea.

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Eklo TIL Citizens of Monaco are not allowed to gamble at the Casino in Monte Carlo. Passports are checked to enforce this.
PYkKE TIL the nickname Dixie, for the southeastern US states, comes from the Mason-Dixon line, a borderline which separated the US in slave and free states.
ZmmB TIL that the ampersand (&) was once the last letter of the alphabet. In latin the & was called “per se”. When reciting the alphabet people would say, “X, Y, Z and per se”. That last bit (“and per se”) eventually ran together to create the word, “ampersand”
QJJaa TIL In order to preserve important anagrams & acronyms in the Harry Potter series, the names of various things & people differ by language. For example, in the French translation, Tom Marvolo Riddle is called Tom Elvis Jedusor—an anagram for "Je suis Voldemort.”
R77gj TIL that dolphins go on killing sprees when they’re sexually frustrated